Truth, Justice, and all that stuff

“Superman has and always will be America’s greatest hero! He was created in the Good Old US of A…”

You do realise that:

a) Superman’s creator was Canadian

Wrongo! Superman was created by two fine Cleveland boys from Glenville High School in the 1930’s.

You’re both right. Joseph Shuster “was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Jewish immigrants. His father, Julius, an immigrant from Rotterdam, and his mother, Ida, who had come from Kiev, were barely able to make ends meet…At the age of ten, Shuster’s family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where, by the age of eighteen, he and his friend Jerry Siegel began publishing a short-lived ‘Science Fiction’ magazine. Shuster made the drawings and Siegel did the writing, creating a super character that a few years later evolved into a comic strip. Employed by DC-National, the pair produced a variety of comic stories, including the lead feature in the company’s issue of the first Action Comics in 1938. The feature character in that issue, Superman, was an enormous success that led to what is referred to as the “‘olden Age of Comic Books.’” –Wiki

“Born in 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, Jerome Siegel was, as a teenager, a fan of the merging literary genre that came to be known as science fiction. Together with schoolmate Joe Shuster, Siegel published several science-fiction magazines and, in 1933, they came up with their own science-fiction hero – Superman.” –superman.ws

Superman: An American icon, created by two fine American boys…one of whom was born in Ontario but whose family left Canada when he was ten.

The never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way: “codified in the form most of us remember it” in the 1950′s through the television episodes, but first used in the fall of 1942 in the radio shows, when Superman was 4. Erik Lundegaard, International Herald-Tribune.

Now, it seems the hustle-and-bustle of the Daily Planet is something of which Schuster had a genuine passion from his childhood days in Toronto, but everything else is an American creation by American boys, upholding American ideals, created once their poor jewish families had immigrated to the New World from European states that afforded far less personal opportunity. Gee, that kind of reminds me of someone. Someone like…

“[Ayn] Rand was born [Alyssa Rosenbaum] in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and was the eldest of three daughters…Rand was twelve at the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and her family life was disrupted by the rise of the Bolshevik party. Her father’s pharmacy was confiscated by the Soviets, and the family fled to Crimea to recover financially…In February 1926, she arrived in the United States at the age of twenty-one, entering by ship through New York City, which would ultimately become her home. She was profoundly moved by the city’s skyline, later describing it in one of her novels, The Fountainhead: “I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline, the sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.” –Wiki

The Fountainhead was published just a few months after Superman came to defend “Truth, Justice and the American Way.” Each of these works was the manifestation of simple and wholesome patriotic passion, borne of gratitude of immigrants toward the homeland that gave their families opportunity, just as that homeland was coming under attack.

…so taking it away is actually more true to Supes’ roots than leaving it.

I don’t know where you picked that up. With all due respect, if someone is out there peddling this load, I’d say it’s high time they were called on it.